This was a really fun piece to do because it came together so easily. The value sketch above was done first, by compositing some photographs I had taken of various things, none of which could be identified by the time I had collaged them together in Photoshop. I looked at the value collage for some time and found what I thought could be an interesting composition, then I went into roughing out the forms. Since I started with a value collage, I already had a hint of depth due to atmospheric perspective. I simply tried to find the shapes that were already in the piece. When I went to the color stage on the right, I fell back into one of my favorite color palettes, orange and blue. I love the look of late afternoon sun on rusted steel. You can see a lot of the first sketch remains in the finished piece.